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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 20:20:34 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SNET: Roger Bunn to join Queen's standing army
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Roger will actually be assigned to the Queen's
royale protectorate, with ear phones mounted
headwise, as he listens to the microphones
which are imbedded in the Palace Guard fuzzy
hats, to spy on unsuspecting tourists who
poke fun at the Queen's standing army.
All in fun, Roger, eh?
/s/ Paul Mitchell
p.s. Was that REALLY Buckingham Palace I
came upon, trying to wake up from jet lag
and codeine cough syrup? Nobody will answer
my question, but I shall keep asking.
At 03:20 AM 6/11/97 +0100, you wrote:
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> TIGER ALERT TIGER ALERT
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> >( > <^> <^ < )<
> < \ / >>
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> ^ ^
>>Hi Roger,
>>I heard that with the new labor govt, you are going to be a
>bureaucrat. Is >this true?
>
>Ha!!! Who told you That!!! I am just let in a few doors that some
>can't open......
>
> Thats funny
>
>Me? A guitar playin old hippy?
>Beatles and all that jazz?
>
>But we all know that "Love Me Do" was bought into the charts
>by Epstein, even the boyz were linked to the criminals and
>opportunists of the Six Member Recording and Publishing Cartel
>in what is a econ-helpless worldwide cottage industry?
>
>The singing bureaucrat?
>We need more whistle blowers not strummers
>
>T Blair plays guitar and Klinton tenor sax of course, maybe someone
>could give'em a few quick lessons in how to play in tune?
>
>At least they don't have to feed their families bitter roots from the
>creative roots of music!!!!
>
> boopbe doo
>
>Seen Tim McVeigh's Superbuddy Andreas Strassmeir?
>
>He is hiding Somewhere. I hear he plays some mean German
>Om PaPa music. There seems to be a (bank robbing, arm
>saluting, cross dressing) bloke called "Donna" with a southern
>accent knocking on my door looking for him.
>
> GOOD RELEASE my friend
>
> ==============
>Here is the latest press release about Nike.
>Regards, Thuyen Nguyen
>>-----------
>VIETNAM LABOR WATCHIMMEDIATE RELEASE
>Press Contact: Thuyen Nguyen, thuyen@spacelab.net
>Nike is trying to discredit its critics with misinformation
>
>
>Last week Nike provided misinformation to the public in its
>criticism of Garry Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury comic
>strip.
>
>In a letter to the South China Morning Post, Nike stated that its
>workers earn twice the per capita income of rural Vietnam. Nike,
>however, left out an important fact: Nike factories are not in rural
>Vietnam. Four of its factories are located in Dong Nai, just outside
>of Hochiminh City, and one factory is right in the city. The per
>capita income of the Hochiminh City area is $925 according to the
>World Bank. The entry level wage at Nike factories is only $480
>per year.
>
>Nike also claimed that workers in Vietnam can save enough of their
>salary to send money home to their families. In March 1997, Vietnam
>Labor Watch has interviewed 35 workers at 4 Nike factories in Vietnam
>and none of those workers save enough money to send home. Nike
>also claimed that workers receive free medical care, English lessons
>and training classes. Nike workers in Vietnam do not receive free
>English lessons and training classes, nor do they receive free medical
>care. All factory workers pay for their own health insurance, which is
>deducted from their monthlypay check
>
>The only benefit that Nike factories provides to its workers in Vietnam
>is a subsidized lunch program. Nike factories report that the cost of a
>lunch is 27 cents; the factories pick up 2/3 of this cost, and deduct
>9 cents from the worker's paycheck. Why then did Nike tell the public
>that the cost of a meal in Vietnam is only 9 cents in its response to Mr.
>Trudeau? The factory workers we interviewed in Vietnam told us that
>the cost of a meal where Nike factories are located ranges from
>60 cents to 70 cents.
>
>Nike's accusation is just another attempt to discredit Nike's critics
>with misinformation. Nike has often used this approach in dealing
>with public exposure of its overseas labor practices.
>
>On May 23 1997, Liz Dolan, Vice-President of Communication at
>Nike Inc., distributed a letter to the press accusing Vietnam Labor
>Watch (VLW) of releasing an inaccurate eport about Nike factory
>workers in Vietnam being laid off. Vietnam Labor Watch has not
>published any report or press release about this issue. VLW has
>provided information to the press in April 1997 about a strike of
>1300 workers at a Nike factory and a report on Nike labor practices
>in Vietnam in March 1997.
>
>
>For the past several years, Nike has maintained that workers in its
>Indonesian factories earn twice the country's minimum wage. This
>claim was proven false last month when 10,000+ workers went on
>strike several times at Nike Indonesian factories because they did
>not even receive the new minimum wage. During the strike, Nike
>told the press that its factories pay Indonesian workers the bare
>minimum wage.
>
>In May 1997, Nike factories in Vietnam also discontinued the practice
>of paying workers below the minimum wage for the first 90 days of employment.
>
>The company, however, continued to claim that its factories did
>not violate Vietnam's minimum wage law in 1996 and 1997. VLW's
>March report provides employee paystubs which document the
>practice of paying a sub-minimum wage beyond the legal period.
>A central recommendation to Nike in that report was to get rid of
>this practice. VLW is glad that Nike has implemented one of its
>recommendations.
>
>Nike even provided misinformation about its overseas factories to
>its own shareholders. By September 1996, many Vietnamese
>newspapers published articles about 15 women workers who were
>hit on the head by a Nike factory supervisor. But at a shareholders
>meeting at Nike's headquarters, Mr. Knight minimized the story into
>an incident involving only one worker who was hit in the arm by a
>supervisor. In the same speech, Mr. Knight also tried to minimize
>a sexual abuse incident involving a factory manager and two
>women workers at another Nike factory, Tae Kwang Vina.
>
>Mr. Knight said that the incident was just a misunderstanding when
>a night watchman was trying to wake up these two workers. He
>ignored the fact that the two women told a horrifying story to the
>Vietnamese press of an attempted rape by a Nike factory manager.
>This factory manager left Vietnam before the Vietnamese authorities
>could put him on trial. picture of actual paystub from Sam Yang
>Vietnam Co., with annotation Exhibit 1. An actual paystub of a worker
>at Sam Yang Vietnam Co., a Nike factory in Hochiminh City.
>The above is a paystub demonstrating that the worker pays for her
>own health insurance as well as 9 cents for a subsidized lunch per day.
>
>The paystub also shows that the worker's basic salary is only
>387,000 VND (Vietnam Dong) or 35 USD which is below the
>minimum wage of 45 USD per month. This worker also worked
>26 days in December 1996 plus 37 hours of overtime and
>8.5 hours on Sunday. The number of hours that she worked in
>December 1996 is 253.5 hours and her take home pay was
>491,000 VND or USD $44.63, or 17 cents per hour. The worker
>behind this paystub represents a typical case of the 500+ workers
>that are about to be laid off at Sam Yang as indicated by Nike in its
>recent press statement due to a production slowdown. VLW hopes
>to call attention to the exploitation of these workers who have worked
>many hours of overtime, getting below minimum wage for the first
>90 days, who are now being laid off just as they are about to receive
>the minimum wage.
>
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>Music Industry Human Rights Association
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